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> But in 2022 it feels impossible to live entirely in a terminal unless you're in very specific areas of work. To be honest, that was true 25 years ago for mos
by bachmeier 4y ago
> But in 2022 it feels impossible to live entirely in a terminal unless you're in very specific areas of work.
To be honest, that was true 25 years ago for most of us. Some programmers could have perhaps gotten away with only the terminal, but most people using computers in their work have long had to use word processors, spreadsheets, and other critical GUI software if we wanted to keep our jobs.
- statico 4y agoAdmittedly I was a student at the time, so I had a lot of time to explore and make things work. I used mutt for email, irssi and the bitlbee proxy for chat, wrote styled docs with LaTeX, etc. When I interned at IBM in 2005 I was even able to get Lotus123 or whatever horrible email thing they used to work with mutt, and my supervisor even encouraged me because he wanted to use it, too.